Bees, Fish, and Beavers (behave yourselves ;-} )

Frank Church wrote:

Since my pontoon boat is
rather open in front and my (kaf kaf) jewels were at water level, I had
visions of those big assed front teeth goint to work on me. Needless to
say I relocated upstream a bit. Never heard of anyone being attacked by a
beaver but I wasn't about to find out first hand.

Frank the fearful...




My home river has quite a few beaver in it. It amazes me how accustomed
the fish get to their presence. There several beaver that live in the
biggest, slowest pool for miles. In the calm water, the fish are very
spooky and often just a ripple from a step into the water will put
down the feeding fish. However, I've fished the pool and had beaver swim
right through the midst of a pod of feeding fish without the fish
missing a beat. Even a tail slap from the beaver don't put the fish down.

Early this Spring I encountered my first "aggressive" beaver. I was
moving upstream to fish a slot of deeper water next to the beaver's
lodge when I saw the beaver come out, cross the river and start swimming
toward me. I was watching it swim, thinking nothing of it and waited for
it to give me the tail slap. Soon it was 20 feet away, then 15 and I
started backing up. Then 10 feet and I poked it in the nose with the tip
of my rod. Still it kept swimming. I scampered up the bank and
thankfully it didn't follow. It got right to the bank, stared at me,
then flipped and did its tail slap. I circled around the lodge.

There was that story about Jimmy Carter getting attacked by a "mad"
beaver when fishing. I always thought it was an urban legend kind of
thing but.........

Any ideas what would have caused this? I remember that beaver have there
pups(?) during Winter? Maybe they were getting ready to start leaving
the lodge or?

Willi

Willi wrote in
:

There was that story about Jimmy Carter getting attacked by a "mad"
beaver when fishing. I always thought it was an urban legend kind of
thing but.........

.....I believe that was a 'mad' rabbit, that's what made the story so funny.

Frank
....who, in the future, will cut beavers alot of slack.

On Thu, 10 Jun 2004 13:57:07 GMT, Frank Church
wrote:

Willi wrote in
:

There was that story about Jimmy Carter getting attacked by a "mad"
beaver when fishing. I always thought it was an urban legend kind of
thing but.........

....I believe that was a 'mad' rabbit, that's what made the story so funny.


Until you've been threatened by a rabbit. I pet sit for a buddy of
mine. He has an aggressive female cat (weighs about 3 pounds, but all
sweet or all mean, depending) and their bunny has learned. When he's
done being cat teased or human handled, he lunges, grunts, and is sort
of scary. The cat's been known to try to take on a hybrid wolf /
husky until grabbed and locked up, so backing her off takes some
doing. He's also gone all testosterone about the newer male cat and
now refuses to let the poor bugger use the litter box. Since I've
been bitten by a bunny, I take it seriously and leave him in his cage
if he doesn't want to come out and play. Or in his corner if he
doesn't want to go back in his cage. I don't know why the poor
neutered tom lets him get away with it. Maybe the same reason.

I've figured Carter's rabbit was just trying to get out of the water
and the boat looked like a good landing spot.

Damn critters. Can't even trust the vegetarians. Just like humans?
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Often taunted by trout.
Only a fool would refuse to believe in luck. Only a damn fool would rely on it.

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lid wrote:


Until you've been threatened by a rabbit.

When I was a kid I had a huge Belgian Hare. One day he kicked the ****
out of our old, blind Boston Terrier -- took a piece of skin the size of
a quarter out of his forehead.

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"Willi" wrote in message
...
There was that story about Jimmy Carter getting attacked by a "mad"
beaver when fishing. I always thought it was an urban legend kind of
thing but.........

I thought that was a rabbit?
http://www.narsil.org/politics/carte...er_rabbit.html

Stan Gula wrote:

"Willi" wrote in message
...

There was that story about Jimmy Carter getting attacked by a "mad"
beaver when fishing. I always thought it was an urban legend kind of
thing but.........


I thought that was a rabbit?
http://www.narsil.org/politics/carte...er_rabbit.html



You're definitely right. My memory sucks.

Willi

"Willi" wrote

You're definitely right. My memory sucks.


it's *ok*, buddy: at least you didn't write "your definitely..."

yfitons
wayno (glass half full, doncha know...)

Wayne Harrison wrote:

"Willi" wrote

You're definitely right. My memory sucks.



it's *ok*, buddy: at least you didn't write "your definitely..."

Support stem cell research. :-)

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During the first Penns clave Tom myself my helper Brian were fishing Inglebe
(sp) just above the house were the bench is and where Jeff Conoly did his half
Ried climbing over the falls.......I had missed the fish of a lifetime and was
fishing for another looked on the oppisite bank and there was a mink looking at
me he eases into the water climbs onto a log moves to a rock right where i am
casting to not thinking i continue to fish i see a fish rise get ready to cast
the mink disappears and the little ******* comes out of the water with the fish
i was casting gives me a backwards glance and shuffles of to enjoy his supper
......was a kool thing to see......i had an experience with a beaver when i was
young still bare the scars from the barbed wire fence i ran into while beating
feet from those buck teeth i think i was about seven or eight scared the crap
out of me with the tail slap and swimming right towards me............


Handyman Mike
Standing in a river waving a stick

In article , Mike
wrote:

During the first Penns clave Tom myself my helper Brian were fishing Inglebe
(sp) just above the house were the bench is and where Jeff Conoly did his half
Ried climbing over the falls.......I had missed the fish of a lifetime and was
fishing for another looked on the oppisite bank and there was a mink looking
at
me he eases into the water climbs onto a log moves to a rock right where i am
casting to not thinking i continue to fish i see a fish rise get ready to cast
the mink disappears and the little ******* comes out of the water with the
fish
i was casting gives me a backwards glance and shuffles of to enjoy his supper
.....was a kool thing to see......i had an experience with a beaver when i was
young still bare the scars from the barbed wire fence i ran into while
beating
feet from those buck teeth i think i was about seven or eight scared the crap
out of me with the tail slap and swimming right towards me............


Handyman Mike
Standing in a river waving a stick

Had a mink swim across the Rapid last week with a 6" trout in it's
mouth. It swam to to the other side, sat on a rock and ate, then swam
back across. I'd seen minks up at Penns before but none of them
successful. Their was also an Osprey that showed a unhealthly interest
in the small Salmon I was playing.

People who don't fish usually don't realize how little fishing has to
do with the time we spend in the river.

Allen